Personally, I prefer my music to be a bit more dangerous, but I can listen with an open mind. Wild Flag is a supergroup fronted by Carrie Brownstein of Portlandia and Sleater-Kinney fame. This long-awaited debut showcases a band capable of mastering and rocking diverse musical styles. Song types range from gentle and folky in …
http://youtu.be/ldpCBSNC2AY Glen Campbell has just released a strong new work, Ghost on the Canvas, with the title cut written by Paul Westerberg of the Replacements. The great Sal Nunziato is quite impressed, and discusses the album on his blog, here and, particularly, here.
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In my estimation, Garland Jeffreys is an utterly unique, seriously underappreciated, figure in American Rock, and has been for more than 40 years now! He can sing like Mick Jagger, Arthur Lee and Bob Marley, not to forget Fifties/Sixties/Seventies Soul singers of every stripe, a combo no one else has ever quite managed to pull …
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“Last September, Carrie Brownstein wrote, “I have no desire to play music unless I need music.” During her post-Sleater-Kinney forays into music blogging and sketch comedy, she explained, “I started to need music again, and so I called on my friends and we joined as a band.” Hence: Wild Flag, a new group she’d formed …
Retro and excellent in a thousand ways: http://youtu.be/kGXKvPZqGog
A 2006 tune rediscovered for the “Crazy Stupid Love” soundtrack: http://youtu.be/4P3SHXQEpRU An interesting cover of the ’60s chestnut: Here’s Time is Running Out. Released in 2003, this is the last tune I remember enjoying on alt rock radio. Sadly it was burdened with one of the most tedious videos since the 80s:
Download the “Witch Shoes” MP3 here.
Taylor standing on the stairway looks so classy. Justin looks like he is trying to seem classy (hat, nice shirt), but he has to appear a little dangerous with the low pants, etc… Problem is: a man sporting a little danger doesn’t coo,”baby, baby, baby, oh” and tends to look like a man, not 15. …
This kid is really keeping time, a drum prodigy. He can barely walk but he’s rocking to Joan Jett. Very “pro drummer” facial expressions. – Thanks to Joy Mazo Colella: https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=114329025264977
Thanks to Timothy Riley for this tune from Seattle’s David Bazan:
Thanks to Karl Clifton-Soderstrom for this. Funny how this recent Decemberists song sounds like an old classic from REM:
Back at El Corazon for Sunday and the final night of my three-day stint covering the Soundfest punk shows, although the first artist was hardly punk. Pascal Briggs, looking much like a young Woody Guthrie, is a poet singer with an electric/acoustic guitar. He had had very nice poetry, but there was nothing that wowed …
Jerry Lieber, of songwriting team Lieber and Stoller, authors of “Hound Dog,” “Stand By Me,” “Is That All There Is?” and many other fondly remembered pop tunes has died at the age of 78. Full story is here.
I received this message today from Brent Amaker: My band Brent Amaker and the Rodeo has booked a tour in Europe next month and even with venues guaranteeing to pay us for shows, we still need help raising money for airfare and equipment rentals once we get there. Normally we finance tours as a band …
When Johnny Cash was old and sick Rick Rubin was hired to produce as many songs as they could get out of him. John Carter Cash helped pick songs and arrange them for his Dad. Ultimately, Johnny had to like it. He listened to Marley as much as Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden, Danzig, …
Night Two of Soundfest, this time at El Corazon which is on Eastlake under the Denny Way viaduct. When I arrived, Neutral Boy from Bremerton, WA, was just starting their set. These guys are more metal than punk, but they were quite good. They play it fast and they play it hard. The vocalist has …
On Saturday night (8/20/2011) John Doe and Exene Cervenka took the stage at Neumos in Seattle. The venue was filled but not packed, and many of fans crowded round the stage were, like me, middle aged. A modest looking man walked to the microphone on stage and fiddled with it for a moment then picked …
Friday night landed me at Club Neumos in Seattle’s illustrious Capitol Hill Neighborhood. This is about the third or fourth time I’ve been in this club and I swear it’s different every time. This time the layout was perfect. There’s a huge dance floor and a large loft with the bar and a sweeping view …
Longboat’s Igor Keller is, of course, a genius. This became clear last May when I beheld Beyond the Moon, a nifty song, video and nostalgia trinket of the 1960s space race. Keller’s talents also shine through his blog, Hideous Belltown, a first person blog of cosmpolitan stories and button-cute squirrel photos wherein he invites readers …